abstract textbooks play an important role in english language teaching (elt), particularly in the english as a foreign language (efl) context where it provides the primary linguistic input. the present research was an attempt to comparatively evaluate the touchstone series in terms of compliment and complaint speech acts. four touchstone textbooks (book 1, book 2, book 3, and book 4) were selec...

Kemerovo State University, the largest institution of higher education in Kuzbass, has a significant contingent foreign students. The article is devoted to pedagogical interaction modeling teaching language multiethnic groups University. basis for textbook English designed specifically students different ethnic order develop skills along with proper intercultural interaction, successful social ...

The emergence of tablet devices, cloud computing, and abundant online multimedia content presents new opportunities to transform traditional paper-based textbooks into tablet-based electronic textbooks. Towards this goal, techniques have been proposed to automatically augment textbook sections with relevant web content such as online educational videos. However, a highly relevant video can be c...

The objectives of this research were (1) to find out the gender representation men and women in English curriculum documents; (2) distribution foreign documents. sample consisted three most common books used junior high schools representing grade VII, VIII IX. data on equality analyzed through content analysis approach. results showed that: lexical compared textbook higher than related issues; ...

This paper investigates the differences and similarities between English open class recordings of Chinese American elementary schools by using video analysis, media data transcription method, statistical method. The samples are all excellent classroom examples. class, “Danny’s Summer Vacation”, is selected from “The Eighth Collection Open Lessons for Primary Schools”. public lesson “Information...

Textbooks play a very crucial role in the process of language teaching and learning. The present study carries out an evaluation of two series of ELT textbooks used for teaching English language in Iranian high schools since 1970 to 2010. For this purpose, Tucker’s (1975) textbook evaluation model (see Appendix) has been employed. The results suggest that one of the main factors for the student...